Michigan Meets Malcolm X

By

S.D. Melzer

Updated Aug. 11, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

DETROIT -- Liberals have been beating their collective breast in recent years over the Bush administration's post-9/11 assault on civil liberties. But Michigan Democrats -- from Gov. Jennifer Granholm to the State Board of Canvassers -- have joined ranks with a radical, 1960s-style Trotskyite group to deny state residents the most basic of all rights: the right to vote.

The group, which lives in a Malcolm X-inspired fantasy world and calls itself By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), has been engaged in a long guerilla campaign...